Accept Payments in Salesforce: A Complete Guide to Stripe Integration

Accept Payments in Salesforce: A Complete Guide to Stripe Integration Tired of switching between your Salesforce CRM and a separate payment processor? What if you could accept credit card payments directly inside Salesforce and have every transaction automatically logged? This guide will walk you through building a complete, secure payment gateway using Stripe and a Lightning Web Component (LWC). We'll cover everything: backend logic, frontend UI, security best practices, and deployment. Prerequisites Before you start, make sure you have: A Salesforce Developer Org or Scratch Org. A free Stripe Account . Visual Studio Code with the Salesforce Extension Pack installed. Step 1: Get Your Stripe API Keys First, we need to get the credentials from Stripe to allow Salesforce to communicate with it. Log in to your Stripe Dashboard . Toggle the Test Mode switch in the top-left corner. This lets you make fake payments without charging real cards. In the left-hand menu, go to Developers > API ke